Zune HD promo videos posted early, 3D gaming is a go

Seven Zune HD videos were posted early and one of them shows a glipse of the …

The Zune HD release is two days away, and yet there are still final details trickling in. Over the weekend, Buy TV posted six Zune HD promotional videos and a Zune HD commercial. The videos have already been taken down, likely at Microsoft's request, but not before they were grabbed and reuploaded at various sites like YouTube. The most important detail revealed is in the Portable Perfection commercial (it doesn't look like something that would air on TV though, so maybe it's meant for the official website?). At around the 30 second mark, you catch a quick view of what appears to be a racing title as the narrator notes the ability to play games on the device.

As you can see in the screenshot above, it's pretty clear that the Zune HD will have 3D gaming capabilities. Remember alltherumors about a portable gaming device from Microsoft that started in 2006 and just never seemed to die off? Well, three years later we're finally getting a (first?) taste. To get a glimpse of the action yourself, check out the ad embedded below:

The good guys over at Neowin snatched and posted the other six videos on their YouTube account:

Most of what is shown in these videos we've already seen before, but you can catch glimpses of apps, the new Zune Marketplace, and other goodies here and there.

Last week, Microsoft confirmed that it currently had no plans to release the Zune HD outside of the US despite previous indications of an international launch. Earlier this month, the software giant announced that all the remaining Zunes (4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 80GB, and 120GB) were going the way of the dodo with the launch of the Zune HD this Tuesday in 16GB ($220) and 32GB ($290) flavors.

In June 2009, Redmond confirmed that the device would be powered by the Nvidia Tegra. Microsoft officially described the Zune HD in May 2009 as a multitouch device with a 16:9 OLED screen, Web browser, HD radio, and full support for 720p video through HDMI out.

Long before then, rumors were swirling about the device, and even until now certain aspects of the device were not confirmed. It's impressive for a huge company like Microsoft to keep parts of the Zune HD covered up for this long, and in doing so to keep the hype going right up until the very end.